ui builder: open only one thing?
 

im new to the ui builder prog.

i wanna mess up my exp bar, but when i open the eq2ui.xml there is 100 other stuffs in the way of the exp bar.
so is there anyway to just open the xp bar with out the other stuff showing up?

/cheers

Not really. You can open just that file, but you won't be able to see anything.

Here's what you can do:

Highlight MainHUD and hit the up arrow with the line over it. That moves it to the top.

Then do the same to Experience within MainHUD.

This will make the Experience window show on top so you can edit it more easily. Just be sure to delete eq2ui.xml and eq2ui_mainhud.xml from your folder if the game patches and something stops working. :)

You don't have to move MainHUD up, you just have to click the tabs on the top row of the viewer window. But yes, you have to move the experiance window

Ok I must be doing it the really hard way then.. :)

I made a copy of my entire Default UI folder in another location, and if for say I am editing the mainhud_experience.xml file, I go into the mainhud.xml (in the copy of the Default UI folder) file and remove all includes but the mainhud_experience.xml call out. PLEASE NOTE: I do this in the Backup Folder and not the folder the Game uses to display the Default UI. Removing all but one call out in the mainhud.xml file in the game's Default folder would wreak all kinds of havok.

Lol... uhh... yeah.... heh.

You get a big ol O.o

It helps to have it already be selected when you load UIBuilder up. :p

Better way
 

ok here is what I do

1. copy your eq2ui from default ui into your work directory
2. open the file in a text editor (notepad)
3. scroll down to near the bottom
4. delete all the line under but not including <include>eq2ui_Templates.xml</include>
5. enter your own line for the file your working on like <include>eq2ui_inventory_inventory.xml</include>
6. save your file as eq2ui.xml or as I do eq2ui_[name of the file I'm working on] make sure it saves as a xml of course
7. load that file into UI Builder and it will pull all the art files from the default dir

not to hard to set up and its easier than finding one window under all of the others :)